The table shows data from all UK TCV team tasks in the year 2023/24.
TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Environmental and social impacts
The wide-reaching positive impacts of our volunteers, including TCV's estimated value on people and nature.
TCV's monetised impacts
The cumulative 30-year monetised benefits of
£117m
vs £11.4m 2023 annual expenditure
Represent a Return on Investment (ROI) of
10.2
for every pound spent at TCV
TCV's environmental outputs
TCV's physical outcomes
The table shows the outcome of tasks completed by all UK teams during 2023/24, split into the physical outcomes in green and extended to social outcomes enabled by our work in orange.
How we understand our impact
TCV work with external sustainability consultants to better understand the positive impact of our volunteers. The environmental outputs, such as number of trees planted and bags of litter removed, were recorded throughout the year.
We then look at how this translates to outcomes like carbon sequestration and the enhanced well-being people get from recreational visits to nature.
Overall, we can estimate the monetised benefits from each activity that TCV teams complete, for example the £ per tCO2e sequestered. Cumulative over 30 years, this resulted in £117m of monetised benefits. This produces a return on investment of 10.2, based on 2023’s annual expenditure, for every pound spent at TCV.
The outputs from the report cover any activity where there is a measurable environmental output. TCV volunteers also have an extensive impact on tasks involved with education, skills-building, food growing, and infrastructure building that isn’t counted here. Therefore the overall picture of TCV’s volunteer numbers and impact can be found in the latest annual report.
Turn your £1 into £10.20 worth of environmental and social impacts! By supporting us, you can help increase the impact of our volunteers and make TCV’s environmental outputs even bigger.